Richard Fish wrote: > Hmm, I thought log rotation was controlled by logrotate, in which case > the default is gzip, but you can change it in /etc/logrotate.conf. > Maybe things work differently with sysklogd though...I am using syslog-ng. >
sysklogd also (optionally) rotates logs, through the savelog utility. Rotation itself is done by a cron job (syslog.cron). If you install both logrotate and syslogd you get some interesting results :-) raf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list